Breanna Stark takes her gumbo roux to dark chocolate

Her patient skillet tutorial has already drawn a much larger audience than her Shorts usually reach in a full first day.

Channel: Breanna Stark Story of November 3, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 497,045 views a day, 5.5 times a normal first day on this channel (90,180).

Is it dark enough?? Let’s make a roux for a pot of gumbo! 🥘

Breanna Stark recommends grabbing a chair for this part of dinner. Making her dark roux means staying beside the skillet, stirring through a succession of colors and resisting the temptation to hurry.

The gumbo tutorial has reached about 323,000 views in its first eleven hours, already more than three times her usual full-day audience for a Short. After her recent decorated lunchboxes, this upload puts the focus on a slower kitchen task: cooking flour until it gives gumbo its nutty, toasted flavor.

Stark starts with oil and all-purpose flour in a cast-iron skillet. She chooses oil rather than butter because, she explains, butter would burn before reaching the dark stage she wants. The mixture passes through blonde and peanut-butter shades before arriving at milk chocolate. Her cue to remove it from the heat is the shift toward dark chocolate.

"Once you burn your roux, there's no salvaging it. So just grab a chair, get comfy, keep stirring," she says.

Taking the pan off the heat doesn't end the work. Stark keeps stirring as the cast iron cools, then blots away excess oil before scooping the thick paste into cooked vegetables.

That final scrape has become a talking point in the comments, alongside messages from viewers outside the US planning their first gumbo. Stark also posted a chicken-and-sausage gumbo video, giving this carefully browned foundation somewhere to go.

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The numbers

The roux tutorial passed Breanna Stark's usual first-day Shorts audience well before its first day was over.

the video's first day

usual first day here

90,180

this video

497,045

subscribers

1,330,000

▲ 20,000 in the last 7 days

total views

818,691,034

views per day

4,619,701

typical day: 2,730,405

the video

views

323,077

likes

21,815

comments

188

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Early American

1,380,000

NYT Cooking

1,360,000

Louis Howard

1,340,000

Jimi Jackson

1,340,000

Breanna Stark

1,330,000

The Stay At Home Chef

1,330,000

As of November 3, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.